Great Jove, to swell the horrors of the fight, O’er the fierce armies pours pernicious night, And round his son confounds the warring hosts, His fate ennobling with a crowd of ghosts.
He confounds myriads with chiliads, and gives Cantacuzene no more than 5000 hogs.
By the change of a letter or accent, it is changed into Lenc, or Lame; and a European corruption confounds the two words in the name of Tamerlane.
It was not so to the tribune; he confounds it with pomarium, an orchard, translates lo Jardino de Roma cioene Italia, and is copied by the less excusable ignorance of the Latin translator (p.
The author lacks moral seriousness, and confounds nobility of character with holiness.
It confoundsthe progress of the race with the progress of the individual, the progress of civilization with the advance of the inner life.
The poetry appropriate to the one condition must necessarily be different from that appropriate to the other, and he is so far a bad poet who confounds the species.
He often confounds it with regeneration, and expresses himself as if the mere rite possessed a mystic virtue.
Unfortunately the weaker instinct of Harcourt's nature was first roused; the vulgar rage which confounds the bearer of ill news with the news itself filled his breast.
It is the repose and not the struggle of the parvenu that confounds us.
When the danger is over, the opinion remains, and by a natural reaction of that spirit of vengeance which confounds itself with patriotism, they love to bear the cherished flag from capital to capital.
These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume; the sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite.
These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, 10 Which as they kiss consume; the sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite.
The troubled heart shakes and confounds it, even as ruffled waters do with shadows.
But,' continued his majesty, 'this story of the sorcerer's man quite confounds me.
Monostatos aids the Queen of Night and her companions in an assault upon the sanctuary; but a storm confounds them, and Sarastro blesses the union of Tamino and Pamina, amidst joyful hymning by the elect.
Some take this to be the Acherusian Lake, while Artemidorus confounds it with Avernus.
Guizot makes a parallel between them and the Protestants; he confounds ideas in such a way, and so far forgets the nature of things, that one would hardly believe it, if the words themselves did not prove it beyond a doubt.
Here Kant at one and the same time distinguishes between, and confounds together, representation and its empirical object.
But he confounds this position with the assertion that they are not only inadequate, but in and by themselves are likewise inapplicable.
Aristotle here as elsewhere confounds the idea of Good, Perfection, Completeness, &c.
This will not hold, because it confounds habit or disposition with act; which last is the true description of memory.
No, oh, no; it is something else, and that is what confounds and alarms me.
He confounds reason with reasoning--that is, he emerges the entire faculty or modus operandi, to which we give the name of reason, in that partial exercise of its function to which we give the name of reasoning.
Amazement or horror thatconfounds the faculties, and incapacitates for refletion; terror, combined with amaxement; dismay.
A state or condition which daffles reason or confounds judgment; insuperable difficalty; inability to proceed or decide; puzzle; quandary.
What a marvellous power you exercise over nature; imagination by no means confounds you.
This is a fact that perpetually perplexes andconfounds me.
For want of this Caution, a Boy is often so dazzled with the Lustre of a great Character, that he confounds its Beauties with its Blemishes, and looks even upon the faulty Parts of it with an Eye of Admiration.
The Uriel Acosta, with whom Addison confounds Orobio, was a gentleman of Oporto who had embraced Judaism, and, leaving Portugal, had also gone to Amsterdam.
I know not any thing more pernicious to good Manners, than the giving fair Names to foul Actions; for this confounds Vice and Virtue, and takes off that natural Horrour we have to Evil.
It may elevate and purify the affections, even while it depresses and confounds the understanding; but it cannot transfigure the whole mind, and change it into its own divine image.
The man who confounds the sensibility with the will should, indeed, have no difficulty in reconciling the divine agency with the human.
But in every such instance he confounds the will with one of the passive susceptibilities of the mind.
He, too, as well as Pelagius, confounds the passive susceptibility of the heart with a voluntary state of the will.
As we have already seen, and as we shall still more fully see, Edwards confounds the power by which we act with the susceptibility through which we feel: the will with the emotive part of our nature.
A saint, when he is active, only appears to promulgate reveries dangerous to the world, and to uphold the interests of the church, that he confounds with the interest of God.
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